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Mother of Palestinian Moamen Yassin Jaber reacts after the 17-year-old was announced dead at al-Ahli hospital in the flashpoint southern city of Hebron on 9 August, 2022

Four Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in West Bank

Israeli forces killed four people Tuesday in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said, including two teens and a man Israel said was a senior militant commander

United Nations headquarters is seen in New York City

UN Security Council to meet over Gaza fighting

The UN Security Council was to hold an emergency meeting on Monday to discuss the situation in Gaza, where a truce is holding between Islamic Jihad militants and Israel after three days of deadly ...

This picture taken from the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon shows Palestinian rockets fired from the Gaza Strip on 7 August 2022.

Israel agrees proposed Gaza truce, Palestinians say talks ongoing

Israel on Sunday agreed to an Egyptian proposed truce with Palestinian militants in Gaza after three days of intense conflict, an Egyptian source said, as Islamic Jihad reported talks toward a ...

Smoke rises during an Israeli air strike, amid Israel-Gaza fighting, in Gaza City 6 August, 2022

Air strikes, rocket attacks push Israel, Gaza into second day of fighting

Israeli air strikes pounded Gaza while the Islamic Jihad group fired hundreds of rockets into Israel on Saturday as a cross-border clash continued into a second day, killing at least six people, ...

People gather at the beach, along the shore of Gaza City, on 13 June, 2022.

Swimming and surfing, Gazans savour a cleaner sea

Palestinians in the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip are rediscovering the pleasures of the Mediterranean Sea, after authorities declared the end of a long period of hazardous marine pollution.

Smoke billows following an Israeli airstrike south of Gaza City on 18 June, 2022

Israel says warplanes hit Hamas sites in Gaza after rocket fire

Israeli warplanes hit Hamas military sites in the Gaza Strip on Saturday in retaliation for rocket fire from the Palestinian enclave run by the Islamist movement, the Israeli army said

Palestinians take part in a protest commemorating the capture of the Gaza Strip by Israel 55 years ago and its 15th year of blockade, in front of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) headquarters in Gaza city on 14 June, 2022

Most Gaza children suffer distress after 15 years of blockade: NGO

Four out of five children in Gaza suffer from emotional distress, Save the Children said Wednesday, 15 years after Israel slapped a strict blockade on the Palestinian territory

Palestinian workers enter a mini van at the last station in Beit Hanun in the northern Gaza Strip, before reaching Israel through the Erez crossing to work, on 23 February 2022.

Israel reopens Gaza crossing after nearly two weeks

Israel reopened on Sunday its only crossing with the Gaza Strip to Palestinian workers nearly two weeks after closing it over unrest, the defence ministry said

A picture shows the exterior of the seafood and fish restaurant "Uri Buri" in the northern Israeli coastal town of Acre, on 2 May, 2022

Three fathers relive nightmare on Gaza’s Wehda Street

After last year’s 11-day war between Hamas and Israel that left 260 dead in the Gaza Strip and 14 in the Jewish state, Gaza’s few psychotherapists converged on Wehda Street to help survivors of the ...

Israeli policemen stand guard in front of Muslim women praying in front of the Dome of the Rock mosque as a group of religious Jewish men and women visit the Temple Mount, which is known to Muslims as the Haram al-Sharif (The Noble Sanctuary), at the Aqsa mosques compound in the old city of Jerusalem on 20 April, 2022

Gaza rockets, Israel strikes stoke new Jerusalem clashes

Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip and Israeli warplanes exchanged fire Thursday in the biggest escalation in months, followed by fresh violence at Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque

Flames and smoke rise during Israeli airstrikes in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, 19 April, 2022

Israel hits Gaza after rocket attack as Jerusalem tensions spike

Israel carried out its first air strike on the Gaza Strip in months early Tuesday, in response to a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave after a weekend of violence around a Jerusalem holy site

A Palestinian woman raises her arms in prayer as she takes part in the first Friday prayers of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, outside the Dome of the Rock at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, Islam's third holiest site, in Jerusalem's Old City, on 16 April, 2021

Jerusalem Al-Aqsa clashes wound ten: medics

Clashes between Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli police wounded ten protesters on Sunday morning in and around Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, the site of major clashes two days ...

Palestinians in Gaza give up studies for Israeli wages

Palestinians in Gaza give up studies for Israeli wages

The moment Hussein got permission to work in Israel, the Palestinian resident of Gaza City said he was ready to quit university to seek the attractive wages offered for menial Israeli jobs

Palestinian survivor of Israel's first military incursion in Gaza 65 years ago, Bassam Barbakh, walks in front of Khan Yunis's 13th Century Barquq Castle where he said dozens of bodies killed by Israeli troops were left outside the castle walls, in Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip, on 18 July 2021

Suez crisis triggered Israel’s first occupation of Gaza

Perched on his sofa in a windowless room, leaning forward on his cane, Bassam Barbakh said Israel’s first military incursion into Gaza 65 years ago was seared into his memory

Iranian photojournalist and president of the Jury Manoocher Deghati delivers a speech during the closing ceremony of the 2021 Bayeux-Calvados Awards for war correspondents in Bayeux, northwestern France, on 9 October, 2021

Unnamed Myanmar photographer wins Bayeux war reporting prize

The prestigious Bayeux War Correspondents' Awards on Saturday honoured work by a range of international journalists including several veteran reporters and -- for the first time -- an unnamed Myanmar ...

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